Olympic gold medal winner and top cruiserweight contender, Rakhim Chakhkiev (12-0, 9Kos), is reportedly going to undergo elbow surgery on Thursday in Boberg, Germany. No information has been provided on how long it will take for the talented boxer to recover. Chakhkiev returns from the most impressive win of his career, a ten round unanimous decision over Alexander Kotlobay (21-3), which happened on Saturay in Hamburg read more ...

On the 28th of January at the five-star luxury hotel Grand Elysee in Germany, undefeated cruiserweight prospect Rakhim «The Machine» Chakhkiev (11-0, 9KOs) will get his toughest test to date in WBC Baltic champion Alexander Kotlobay (21-2-1, 15KOs). Chakhkiev has started training hard at Universum’s new gym in Hamburg. The young prospect is sparring with several boxers, including his former rival Lukasz Rusiewicz (10-11, 3KOs). Chakhkiev fought Rusiewicz twice, in July 2010 and December 2010, and twice the Polish fighter was able to last the distance read more ...

Highly regarded Russian middleweight Dmitry Pirog (16-0, 13 KOs) continued his way up in the ranks with the sixth-round TKO of Estonian Sergey Melis (15-2, 6 KOs) in the only televised bout, which lasted longer than one round on Tuesday at the Yubileyniy Palace of Sports in St. Petersburg, Russia read more ...

Enzo Maccarinelli has been handed a title lifeline by promoter Frank Warren in the form of an EBU cruiserweight title tilt against Russia’s Alexander Kotlobay on April 27 at the Yubileiny Sports Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Enzo suffered a nightmare 2009, losing by stoppage to Ola Afolabi and Denis Lebedev read more ...

WBO #6 middleweight Gennady Martirosyan (20-2, 9 KOs) retained his WBO Europe title for the first time after a hard-fought stoppage of comebacking French veteran Aziz Daari (24-13-4, 20 KOs) on Saturday night at the Atmosphere Night Club in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Martirosyan didn’t show his usual aggressiveness but preferred to fight in Abraham-like style by boxing in spurts and covering in a shell-like defense for the rest of the time read more ...